[MPlayer-cygwin] Preliminary Cygwin compilation guide

[Chris Taylor]

On Fri, July 9, 2004 10:44 pm, Stefan Gürtler said:
> I always add the --with-codecsdir=codecs, so that you can take your 
> mplayer.exe out of the posix environment (cygwin or MSYS) and still use
> it with all featrues. Maybe creating a link to the location where you 
> unpacked the essential codecs will make both locations work and only 
> having one set of the codecs on your system (if the filesystems allows 
> real links and does not just copy the files)
> 
> Stefan
> 

Given that this is a compilation guide specifically for cygwin, I'm not sure that this is strictly necessary.. also, that would have the problem of the codecs dir being a subdir of where you were compiling, if i'm reading the option correctly. If you wish to remove from the posix environment, you'd have to use a windows path.. Trying to remember (it's 5am, so I'm not expecting to get this right.. :P), but can't you specify a codecs location in codecs.conf ?

Once I've got the current guide fleshed out, with the options explained and why they were used, I'll look at starting to deal with alternatives.. It's just a matter of fitting it in around work and such.. Not always the easiest thing.. Also been having motivational issues recently... Blarg. Anyway.

Chris / EqUaTe

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